US, that it was number-one hit in the US, for five weeksĭebacle, Johnny, with music by Ramana Gogula - the techie Probabilities, he must have heard the track's cover versionīy Paul Mauriat, 'Love is blue' that was so popular in the Would have Saluri Rajeshwara Rao heard this French track? No, in all Vicky Leandros (appearing as Vicky) as Luxembourg's entry Track titled, 'L'Amour Est Bleu', composed by André Popp with That he decided to 'use' it too, for the 1997 film, 'Aahwaanam', But Telugu Director/Ĭomposer SV Krishna Reddy perhaps liked the original so much Johnny Wakelin's Muhammad Ali-inspired track, 'In Zaire' isĪlready popular in India thanks to Jatin Lalit reworking it as 'Kaiseĭon' in Kabhi haan Kabhi naa (1993). Why couldnt Bapu get Ilayaraja himself to compose the music,Ĭonsidering Ilayaraja's popularity across all the 4 southern states? Seems to have been taken for a ride by composer Mani Sharma. Other, but in this unfortunate case, one of the greatest Telugu director I usually do not prefer listing lifts from one Indian language to

Lifted from Prem Joshua's song 'Bolo Hari', from the 2001 album Dance ofĬomposition, 'Mottu vitta' from 'Indru nee naalai naan'! Lifted from Jennifer Lopez's 'Love don't cost a thing'!

Lifted from Shakira's 'Whenever Wherever'. Its rather interesting to note that the main tune of the Telugu song appears merely for a few seconds in the original but the similarity is striking.making it a direct lift! Is subtle and makes for interesting listening! Inspired by Shawn Colvin's 1996 number 'Sunny came home' from the album Of the most sought after composers in the Telugu film industry! This song was instrumental in establishing Mani Sharma as one

Tuning all but this song! This song (Pellikala vachesinde bala) wasĬomposed by guest composer Mani Sharma. Lifted lock stock and barrel from Mory Kante's 'Yeke Yeke' from the Deva has beautifully worked on this number, the 2nd para soundsīrilliant and is original too. One of the most authentic use of an original Partly inspired from the Dr Alban number 'Alabalaba' chronicles of plagiarism in indian film music

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